Ban Calf-Roping at the Calgary Stampede

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Calgary Stampede

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During calf roping, calves, running at speeds of up to 27 miles per hour, are jerked off their feet by a rope slung around their necks and then slammed to the ground. The calves may suffer paralysis, throat and neck injuries, and broken bones. Many die. Calves have become paralyzed from severe spinal cord injury, and their tracheas have been totally or partially severed.

It is not hard for anyone with a heart to understand what is wrong with clotheslining a baby animal, body slamming it to the ground and tying its legs so it cannot move. If this were done to a puppy or kitten, the offender would be charged with crimes and likely jailed.

Incredibly, rodeo people have no problem with committing an act of cruelty against a baby cow during calf roping. A roping calf is only three to four months old. After that, they become too heavy for the cowboys to handle.

Calf-roping on the range bears no resemblance to calf roping at the rodeo. In the rodeo, it is a timed event, and indefensible abuse to the calf is the price paid for a competitive time. On the range, calves are roped carefully, and slowly brought to a halt.

On the range, calves are roped for care, or to protect them from danger. In rodeos, calves are endangered for amusement. This "sport" violently and specifically preys upon baby animals, and then calls itself "family entertainment!"

Please sign this petition & let the Calgary Stampede know that you want a BAN on Calf Roping.

Hopefully this cruel "sport" will be banned by Stampede 2009.

Last year the Second Largest Rodeo in Canada, The Cloverdale rodeo in BC Banned Calf Roping after a calf was put down after its leg was broken.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=59248c32-7191-4453-8f74-2d58b8234126

For more information on Calf Roping please visit....

http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000680

http://www.bucktherodeo.com/prcalet.html

In the U.S., calf roping is prohibited in Rhode Island and Baltimore
County, Maryland, while internationally, Germany and the Australian
state of Victoria do not allow the event.

Rodeos are banned in San Francisco and Napa County, Calif., St.
Petersburg, Fla., Fort Wayne, Ind., the U.K. and Australia's Capital
Territories.

http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000679

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We signed the "Ban Calf-Roping at the Calgary Stampede" petition!

# 2,507:

12:53 pm PST, Nov 3, Susan Suni Ibarra, California

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8:26 am PST, Nov 3, Erica Last, Wisconsin

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8:18 pm PST, Nov 1, Arun Mahesh, Pakistan

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3:50 pm PST, Nov 1, Marcela Sabata, Argentina

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7:59 am PDT, Oct 31, Maria Fongaro, Italy

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6:35 am PDT, Oct 31, Debra Baker, Florida

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3:53 pm PDT, Oct 30, Bonnie Kirkwood, Idaho
There are plenty of sports for these individuals to become good at that do not require gratuitous fear and suffering for living creatures. Someday, we will look back and realize how barbaric this kind of "game" is. Wake up!

# 2,500:

7:54 am PDT, Oct 30, Gary G., Virginia

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6:56 am PDT, Oct 28, Anne-Lise Holmberg, Denmark

# 2,498:

3:19 pm PDT, Oct 27, Aliz Szappanos, United Kingdom

# 2,497:

1:20 pm PDT, Oct 27, Joan Yielding, Missouri
THIS IS SICK AND UNFAIR, PLEASE STOP.

# 2,496:

12:03 pm PDT, Oct 26, Marie Taylor-Clarke, United Kingdom

# 2,495:

11:56 am PDT, Oct 26, Philip Atock, United Kingdom

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1:40 am PDT, Oct 26, David Tsosie, Arizona

# 2,493:

9:38 pm PDT, Oct 25, Melissa MacDonald, California
This is very cruel and it needs to be stopped at once! There is no reason to harm animals for human entertainment. Please show mercy and compassion toward all living beings!

# 2,492:

6:51 pm PDT, Oct 25, Alexandra Manolesco-Ami, Canada

# 2,491:

5:56 pm PDT, Oct 25, Simon Fayet, France

# 2,490:

5:56 pm PDT, Oct 25, Daniel Feret, France

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5:56 pm PDT, Oct 25, France Fayet, France

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3:57 pm PDT, Oct 25, Dianna Graham, Canada

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3:35 pm PDT, Oct 25, Karen Lyons kalmenson, New York

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12:12 pm PDT, Oct 25, Gudrun Dennis, Florida

# 2,485:

8:39 am PDT, Oct 25, Linda Dunne, Ireland

# 2,484:

7:46 pm PDT, Oct 24, Charles Carter, Arkansas

# 2,483:

6:42 pm PDT, Oct 24, Sonia Beccheri, Brazil
PLEASE SAVE OUR FRIENDS JUSTICE NOW IT´S A SHAME AND A CRIME

# 2,482:

1:59 pm PDT, Oct 24, Vanessa Gutierrez, California

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1:49 pm PDT, Oct 24, Kari Dyrdahl, Minnesota

# 2,480:

11:40 am PDT, Oct 24, Julia Austin, South Africa

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10:56 am PDT, Oct 24, Annie Cowling, Connecticut

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10:22 am PDT, Oct 24, Sinikka D., Finland

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10:17 am PDT, Oct 24, Julieta Salinas, Mexico

# 2,476:

10:08 am PDT, Oct 24, Love Animals Too, New York

# 2,475:

9:25 am PDT, Oct 24, Catherine O Neill, Louisiana
Barbaric!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 2,474:

8:02 am PDT, Oct 24, Polly Pagan, United Kingdom

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6:56 am PDT, Oct 24, Chris Beal, United Kingdom

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3:47 am PDT, Oct 24, Nan Bongiovanni, California
This is pitiful, now does this poor calf look like it is having a good time? This is not humane by any means. This needs to be stoped it is cruel.

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2:44 am PDT, Oct 24, Agnes Agnesa, Thailand

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2:35 am PDT, Oct 24, C Million, Florida

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1:54 am PDT, Oct 24, Bob Eck, Arizona

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1:46 am PDT, Oct 24, Lyolya Strelcova, Moldova, Republic Of

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1:27 am PDT, Oct 24, Dve D b, United Kingdom

# 2,466:

12:31 am PDT, Oct 24, Robyn Cooper, California
It's time for fake-o cowboys to go away...enough bad news has come from this misplaced "romantic" white boy view of the world.

# 2,465:

12:27 am PDT, Oct 24, Paula Chiaruttini, Australia
Stop the cruelty.

# 2,464:

12:11 am PDT, Oct 24, Arild Warud, Portugal

# 2,463:

9:59 pm PDT, Oct 23, HAL ARMES, Mississippi
I believe in rodeos and don't believe that something should not have to do any work just because it has 4 legs, as I have to work for a living. For a few minutes a day or less a bucking bull or bronc works, a baby calf does not, and it's time for a change.

# 2,462:

9:15 pm PDT, Oct 23, Lyhann O'Shaughnessy, Mexico

# 2,461:

8:08 pm PDT, Oct 23, Colin Felton, Florida
See Abu Graib

# 2,460:

7:59 pm PDT, Oct 23, Alice Bowron, Minnesota
This is inhumane, cruel, and agonizing. This must be stopped - there is no good excuse for continuing this cruelty against calves!

# 2,459:

5:37 pm PDT, Oct 23, Alejandra Vega, Argentina

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5:34 pm PDT, Oct 23, Mary Ann Clark, Connecticut

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5:23 pm PDT, Oct 23, Raffi OUT-NO POSTSPLZ, Minnesota

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5:17 pm PDT, Oct 23, Rain For Change, Maryland

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4:29 pm PDT, Oct 23, Anne Kirkwood, Florida
As if the Calgary Stampede weren't brutal enough on the horses forced to participate as "entertainment", wtf is the sense of roping calves and causing them pain, injury, and even death? It's not as if the calves have escaped and are in danger and must be captured and returned to safety. These poor animals are victimized in a near bloodsport. How about turning the "ropers'" children loose instead, and let the yahoos rope and injure their own offspring.

# 2,453:

4:24 pm PDT, Oct 23, RoseAnn Stapff, Florida
This is so inhumane.Only when we eradicate all animal abuse we are still SAVAGES.Ban this vile sport - rodeos!!!!! they belong in the dark ages.Name and shame the corporate companies who participate in this sport,eg Coca Cola.

# 2,452:

4:21 pm PDT, Oct 23, Pam Hayes, Australia
Anyone that gets a kick out of seeing this cruelty needs professional help. Stop this archaic crime immediately.

# 2,451:

4:09 pm PDT, Oct 23, Susan Dumas, United Kingdom
SO CRUEL!

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